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    Realistic or just Rhetoric? The Ban on Chemical Fertilizer
    by |27 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on Groundviews  In early 2021, a survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. Of...
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    Crucial Farmer Opinion on Synthetic Fertilizer Ban Warns of 50 percent Reduction in Harvest
    by |26 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on CounterPoint  More than three quarters of farmers who took part in a country wide telephone survey last month said they currently use synthetic fertilizer to cultivate.  Their prediction that their harvest will reduce by almost half if they...
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    Farmers Against Haphazard Rush to Switch to Organic Fertiliser
    by |26 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on DailyFT First-of-its-kind survey by Verité Research reveals pulse of farmers on fertiliser issue Farmers supportive of Govt. vision to move to organic agriculture, but almost 80% feel shift would require more than a year  Urge properly phased-out process...
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    De Facto Rationing of Dollars Arising out of Forex Crisis
    by |22 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on The Sunday Times While Sri Lanka is grappling with the ongoing foreign exchange crisis, ‘rationing’ is taking place amongst letters of credit as those who have the firepower get the benefit while others are deprived of dollars. This...
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    Proposed Tax Amnesty: Exercising Caution in Income Generation
    by |21 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on The Morning  Govt. expects $ 500 m income through tax amnesty: Cabraal Important for people to submit their taxable supplies: IRD Chief Amnesties granted on previous occasions have failed: Dr. Wijewardena While the Government states it expects to...
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    IMF or No IMF, Sri Lanka Needs Economic Analysis and Plan Going Forward
    by |12 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Island Whatever Sri Lanka decides about dealing with its debt and paying its way through the world, the country needs to formulate a very good economic analysis and a publicly-backed plan that will establishc credibility of the...
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    Debt Default Danger: Alarmist or Imminent?
    by |09 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Morning LK Will the Government of Sri Lanka default on its obligations to service its mountain of debt over the next couple of years, including two bond repayments of a total of $ 1.5 billion due in...
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    Real Question Is Not Whether SL Should Go to IMF or Not
    by |05 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Island The real question is not whether Sri Lanka should go to the IMF or not. What is important is going to the IMF with confidence after having analysed the fiscal situation, with a convincing plan, Executive...
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    Un SDG on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Unlikely to Be Fulfilled by SL: Study
    by |04 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in the Daily Mirror Sri Lanka is unlikely to realize by 2030 the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on gender equality and women empowerment as lack of monitoring and accountability hinders the ability in moving in that...
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    CA Sri Lanka’s CEOs Forum Plays Nexus Role to Bridge Gap between Govt., Biz Community
    by |03 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in the DailyFT State Minister Nivard Cabraal urges private sector to look long-term, not focus only on short-term CB Chief says Govt. policy plan has heavy focus placed on exports, domestic production as well as entrepreneurship and SME activities...
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